Journeys
The expeditions, reassembled
Every dated label is a diary entry. Read a collector’s labels in order and the voyage comes back: the islands in sequence, the days at each, the specimens from every stop. 5 journeys so far, 1952 to 1958, 1,396 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions126 days in the field105,984 km between stops1,164 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu and Sulu Island · Nov 1952 – Jun 1953
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Sulu Island, November 1952 – June 1953749 specimens · 29 stops · 217 days · 1,689 km
Maxwell S. Doty
11 islands · Sep 1953 – Aug 1954
Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, September 1953 – August 1954309 specimens · 40 stops · 315 days · 78,333 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Nov – Dec 1953
Harold St.John across 7 islands, November – December 1953254 specimens · 14 stops · 33 days · 9,010 km
H.E. Milliron
4 islands · May – Oct 1958
H.E. Milliron across 4 islands, May – October 195841 specimens · 18 stops · 136 days · 10,829 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu and Aguijan · Jan – Feb 1952
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Aguijan, January – February 195243 specimens · 5 stops · 34 days · 6,123 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date and a known collector is a diary entry. The days are read in order; a gap of more than three weeks ends one journey and starts the next. Days spent where a collector lived most of their life are home, not travel, and are left out.
A journey needs at least five days, forty specimens and two places. Within it, a run of days spent within about ten kilometres is one stop; the stop’s point is the middle of the labels that carry coordinates, or the island’s centre when none do.
Companions are the people whose own labels put them in the same place on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it and feature it; everything else here is read straight off the specimens, and is rebuilt as the records improve.